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by seoaeu 5y ago
Banks have given interest rates lower than inflation for as long as I can remember. If negative real interest rates are natural, then it is weird people are so alarmed by nominal interest rates being negative as well
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by seoaeu 5y ago
"Selling" and "market share" is pretty generous when talking about people who are not and will never give you any money . Sure maybe they'll pay you in exposure, but personally I wouldn't bet much on that
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by seoaeu 5y ago
The linked talk specifically complains about everyone building off of Linux, because doing so bakes in a whole bunch of assumptions that are decades old and might not be the best options for today's hardware...
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by seoaeu 5y ago
...if a company is incapable of allocating money to pay Docker, then why should Docker care whether that company uses the product or not?
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Hand counting of ballots works well when you're only voting for a single elected office. In the US, most elections involve voting for many different offices all on the same ballot. Really, we should just be switching to using scantron
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by seoaeu 5y ago
You do realize that a sample of your DNA could be traced back to you pretty easily, right? If a sibling or close relative was in the database it wouldn't take much to de-anonymize you
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Vaccination guarantees some immunity for all existing variants. Just because it is impossible to say for all hypothetical future variants doesn't mean you need to spread misinformation like that
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Pedantically, dying from covid makes it even less likely you'll catch it again... Really this is all just confusing what the actual goal is: to end the pandemic while minimizing death and suffering
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by seoaeu 5y ago
The problem is if two towers worth of rich people move to the area but you only build one tower. Then half of them will move into the luxury tower and half will bid up the prices on the nearby average housing. Obviously the solution is that
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Since if you put that $500k into the S&P 500 you could end up with $1M or more after a decade?
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Interesting hearing the situation in Spain! In the US, you sometimes see arguments centered around there being lots of vacant housing, but they usually neglect to mention that a significant majority of those units are actually either (a) so
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Yeah, adverse possession laws which kick in after years/decades of using some property make a lot of sense. You can even think of them as a sort of statute of limitations on property disputes
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by seoaeu 5y ago
The $500k figure is the cost the local housing agency spends building units sized based on actual need and with optimizing cost part of the focus. Private developers around here regularly create housing costing anywhere from $700k to $2 mil
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Why should newcomers to a city be forced to endure long commutes just because they happened to be born in a different part of the country? We have the capability to let everyone who wants to live in those areas do so. I see no reason that t
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Of course Cambridge didn't add significantly more people than it added housing units. People aren't going to move to the city for a job only to live in a tent down by the railroad tracks! Instead what happened is that new resident
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Social housing (or other approaches to subsidized housing) are a necessary piece of the puzzle. However, they are also extremely expensive : around my area the commonly cited number is $500,000/unit. It would take a very major politic
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by seoaeu 5y ago
There have literally been hundreds of thousands of new jobs created in the region in recent decades. Cambridge alone added nearly 50,000 new jobs since 1980! So yes 2400 units is a start, but we need dozens more like it before we start to
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by seoaeu 5y ago
A trend which surely had nothing to do with the tech/biotech boom in the area. When a region gains hundreds of thousands of new jobs and doesn't build housing to compensate, then rents are going to increase
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Yes, that sacrifice successfully flattened the curve. No thanks to everyone who defied lock downs and mask mandates. Now we're onto the next step: using the vaccine to reach herd immunity so we can be done with this pandemic once and
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Ok, you're clearly a troll. After all the reporting from the last year and a half, no one could seriously believe that the entire population of San Fransisco catching covid would result in fewer than 200 hospital admissions
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Why should I have sympathy for those who have displayed a such reckless disregard for the well-being of their fellow neighbors? The best I can muster is some pity for them falling victim to disinformation. So many of us endured personal sac
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by seoaeu 5y ago
A 0.0032% hospitalization rate doesn't pass the smell test. That's hundreds of times less than the reported fatality rate!
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by seoaeu 5y ago
> "Limited data not enough to draw conclusions" Media fearmongering about Delta doesn't change anything. The reality is that places which have very high vaccination rates have been able to return much more to normal. And
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by seoaeu 5y ago
It isn't that much worse when a cure causes issues. People endure terrible side effects from treatments to cure their cancer. Nearly every medicine I hear advertised has some risk of causing serious side effects, if not outright deat
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Because in places where lots of people think like you, the ICUs are overflowing? I also think you underestimate how ANGRY people are that they spent 18 months in lockdown, only to have some anti-vaxers mess things up at the end. By this poi
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Those could also be long term side effects of covid . A double digit percentage of people who catch the disease end up in the hospital soon after infection compared to fraction of a fraction of a percent of vaccine recipients in the time a
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Presumably the reverse is also true: if I claim science supports my position then you'll say I'm politicizing science?
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by seoaeu 5y ago
That's supposed to be a generous position? I demand the right to harass you, and in return I promise that I most likely will choose not to?
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by seoaeu 5y ago
> the intelligence agency has monitored [...] hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people [...] over the last three years That doesn't strike me as worse than what Snowden revealed. PRISM and the rest of those programs intercepted commun
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by seoaeu 5y ago
It doesn't matter how much the device cost or how much you want control or how justified your access is, if you are able to intercept private messages sent between two other people then those messages can't reasonably be considere

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